After 2400 BC new groups of people arrived in southeast Britain from Europe. They were round -headed and strongly built, taller than Neolithic Britons. We don't know if they invaded by armed force, or if they were invited by Neolithic Britons because of their military or metal- working skills. Their arrival is marked by first individual graves, furnished with pottery beakers, from which these people get their name: the 'Beaker' people.

The Beaker people brought with them from Europe a new cereal, barley, which could grow practically anywhere. They brought skills to make bronze tools and these began to replace stone ones.

* beaker кубок

* beaker people  народ колоковидных кубков

* barley  ячмень